Byron York: White House leak revs up immigration reform talks

3:49 PM,
Feb. 19, 2013

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What did the Obama White House hope to accomplish when it leaked an outline of the president's immigration reform proposal? Was a glimpse of the plan - heavy on amnesty, light on enforcement - supposed to move the reform process along? Blow the whole thing up?

"The White House is insisting it was an accidental leak," says one senior Republican Senate aide. "It may have been, but it nevertheless undermined the process. It raised suspicions the White House is going to pull the rug out from under the GOP, which is engaged in bipartisan negotiations, by ultimately pushing for something we can't ...